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  • Is It a System?

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about systems. The probe is designed to find out whether students can recognize that things with parts that interact or influence each other are systems.

  • Is It Food?

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food. The probe is designed to find out if students use a scientific definition of food to distinguish food items from nonfood items.

  • Is It “Fitter”?

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about natural selection. The probe is designed to find out how students interpret the commonly used phrase “survival of the fittest.”

  • Using the Putting the Pieces Together Instructional Routine

    Professional Learning Unit |

    In this module, educators will be introduced to the four elements of the Putting the Pieces Together (PT2) Instructional Routine. In the Putting the Pieces Together Instructional Routine, students synthesize ideas they…

  • Comparing Cubes

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about properties of matter. The probe is designed to find out which properties students think will change if the size of an object made from the same…

  • Safer Laboratory Dissection Activities

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  • What Is Sensemaking?

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Learn to recognize the four critical attributes of sensemaking and how these attributes work together to help ensure all students have access and a strong desire to learn science. 

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